OLIVINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does olivine mean? 

• OLIVINE (noun)
  The noun OLIVINE has 1 sense:

1. a mineral consisting of magnesium iron silicate; a source of magnesium

  Familiarity information: OLIVINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIVINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mineral consisting of magnesium iron silicate; a source of magnesium

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("olivine" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "olivine"):

atomic number 12; magnesium; Mg (a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "olivine"):

chrysolite (a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone)